Alcoa Theaatre 333 Montgomery (1960)

Synopsis

13 Jun 1960 Paul Wendkoss Writer: Gene Roddenberry Jake Brittin is a San Francisco defense attorney opposed to the death penalty. He agrees to defend a wrongly accused man. Alcoa Theatre was a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on Monday nights from September 30, 1957 to May 23, 1960. For its first four months on the air, the title Turn of Fate was used as an umbrella title for Alcoa Theatre and its alternate-week counterpart, Goodyear Theatre.In 1955, The Alcoa Hour premiered in a one-hour format aired on Sunday nights, but it was reduced to 30 minutes, retitled Alcoa Theatre, and moved to Monday evening in 1957. The show employed an alternating rotating company of actors: David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell, Jack Lemmon and Charles Boyer during its initial season. They did not return in 1958, "and the program became a true anthology once again".

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Running time

22 minutes

Collection

1960s Classic TV, Classic TV

Subjects on the Internet Archive

• Courtroom
• Alcoa Theatre